Koproduktion von Wissen in der Entwicklung des Biolandbaus - Einflüsse von Marginalisierung, Anerkennung und Markt.Andrea Aeberhard, Stephan Rist, 2009 In: Mayer JA T, Leiber F, Dubois D, Fried P, Heckendorn F, Hillmann E, Klocke P, Lüscher A, Riedel S, Stolze M, Strasser F, Van der Heijden M, Willer H, editors. Wissenschaftstagung Ökologischer Landbau. Werte - Wege - Wirkungen: Biolandbau im Spannungsfeld zwischen Ernährungssicherung, Markt und Klimawandel. Zürich: Verlag Dr. Köster, Berlin, pp 8-10. |
Transdisciplinary Co-Production of Knowledge in the Development of Organic Agriculture in SwitzerlandAndrea Aeberhard, 2009 PhD Thesis
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Transdisciplinary co-production of knowledge in the development of organic agriculture in Switzerland.Andrea Aeberhard, Stephan Rist, 2009 Journal of Ecological Economics 68:1171-1181 |
Traditional ecological knowledge, land use and ecosystem diversity in the Tunari National Park (Bolivia)An ethnoecological approach to dialogue between traditional and scientific ecological knowledge Sebastien Boillat, 2007 PhD Thesis, University of Bern, Switzerland
This thesis has the overall goal of contributing to the development of the emerging approach of “nature-society hybrids” by setting the fundaments for a dialogue between the needs of biodiversity conservation and the needs and claims of indigenous and traditional people. It is based on the assumption that indigenous and traditional people may not be conservationists “by default”, because the concept of biodiversity conservation has emerged from a concern of modern science and global policy in the developed world that they do not share necessarily. Nevertheless, indigenous communities may have traditional land use practices that are at the same time deeply rooted in their traditional knowledge and specific cultural worldview, and highly relevant for the conservation of biodiversity. The main objective of the thesis was to analyze the links between traditional ecological knowledge, land use and the diversity of ecosystems, as a basis for the promotion of sustainable development, understood as results emerging from the dialogue between scientific and traditional ecological knowledge.
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Knowledge for Sustainable Development in the Tajik Pamir MountainsThomas Breu, Hans Hurni, Daniel Maselli, 2005 The paper presents the results of a multi-year baseline study project in which 10 sectors ranging from agriculture to natural hazards were assessed by a transdisciplinary Swiss–Tajik research team. This knowledge base was enhanced in a development strategy workshop that brought together stakeholders from the local to the international levels. The methodology applied was found appropriate to initiate a broad reflection and negotiation process among various stakeholder groups, leading to a joint identification of possible measures to be taken. Knowledge—and its enhancement through the involvement of all stakeholder levels—appeared to be an effective carrier of innovation and changes of attitudes, thus containing the potential to effectively contribute to sustainable development in marginalized and resource-poor mountain areas.
Mountain Research and Development 2005, Volume 25, Issue 2, pp. 139–146
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From statistical data to spatial knowledgeInformed decision making in Vietnam Michael Epprecht, Andreas Heinimann, N. Minot, D. Mueller, 2007 The display and analysis of spatial information is indispensable to generate knowledge about the location of objects, about spatial clusters, and relationships that informs decision-makers and researchers in Vietnam.
Information Development 23(2-3):193-204
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La connaissance métisseUne analyse de la politique de protection des connaisances traditionnelles au Pérou Marc Galvin, 2004 PhD Thesis, Institut universitaire d'études du développement (iuéd), Geneva, Switzerland
Metis Knowledge. Analysis of the Traditional Knowledge Policy in Peru:
This research aimed to produce a critical analytical framework to understand the process of international norms creation, transmission into a national context and implementation at the local level. This objective has been addressed by choosing traditional knowledge (TK) issue as a strategy to analyze the multi-level governance process, and by studying especially the Peruvian Law for TK protection. This law voted in 2002 intended regulate the encounter of local supply with international demand. But a number of doubts have appeared: Is this law an efficient way of protecting traditional knowledge? Why is its implementation so slow? What is the potential of TK for nature conservation and sustainable development?
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Indigenous knowledge related to climate variability and change: insights from droughts in semi-arid areas of former Makueni District, Kenya.Chinwe Ifejika Speranza, Peter Ambenje, Boniface Kiteme, Samuel Makali, Urs Wiesmann, 2010 This article describes the indigenous knowledge (IK) that agro pastoralists in larger Makueni District, Kenya hold and how they use it to monitor, mitigate and adapt to drought. It examines ways of integrating IK into formal monitoring, how to enhance its value and acceptability. Data was collected through target interviews, group discussions and questionnaires covering 127 households in eight villages. Daily rainfall data from 1961–2003 were analysed. Results show that agro-pastoralists hold IK on indicators of rainfall variability; they believe in IK efficacy and they rely on them. Because agro-pastoralists consult additional sources, the authors interpret that IK forms a basic knowledge frame within which agro-pastoralists position and interpret meteorological forecasts. [...]
Climatic Change. doi:10.1007/s10584-009-9713-0
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Ethnosciences––A step towards the integration of scientific and indigenous forms of knowledge in the management of natural resources for the futureStephan Rist, Farid Dahdouh-Guebas, 2006 Integration of indigenous knowledge and ethnoscientific approaches into contemporary frameworks for conservation and sustainable management of natural resources will become increasingly important in policies on an international and national level. We set the scene on how this can be done by exploring the key conditions and dimensions of a dialogue between ‘ontologies’ and the roles, which ethnosciences could play in this process. First, the roles which ethnosciences in the context of sustainable development were analysed, placing emphasis on the implications arising when western sciences aspire to relate to indigenous forms of knowledge. Secondly, the contributions of ethnosciences to such an ‘inter-ontological dialogue’ were explored, based on an ethnoecological study of the encounter of sciences and indigenous knowledge in the Andes of Bolivia, and reviewed experiences from mangrove systems in Kenya, India and Sri Lanka, and from case-studies in other ecosystems world-wide.
Environment, Development and Sustainability 8(4):467-493. |
From scientific monoculture to intra- and inter-cultural dialogue
From Transfer to Co-production of Knowledge - New Challenges for Research and ExtensionStephan Rist, 2009 In: Tropentag 2008 - International Research on Food Security, Natural Resource Management and Rural Development – Competition for Resources in a Changing World New Drive for Rural Development. Book of Abstracts, Univeristy of Hohenheim, Germany: Cuviller Verlag, Göttingen, pp 580.
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Adaptation and evaluation of integrated rice and duck farming in the Hongdong Community of South Korea and the Poolmoo SchoolsKnowledge sharing and learning in sustainable rice cultivation networks Dominik Rutz, 2009 Knowledge empowers individuals with the choice to either use natural resources sustainably or to deplete them. This thesis uses the example of Integrated Rice and Duck Farming (IRDF) to shed light on how knowledge sharing and learning processes cross boundaries in order to enable sustainable natural resource use. These boundaries vary depending on the social and natural environment in which the knowledge is developed, shared and applied. Members of different groups or institutions engage in various forms of collaboration in order to share knowledge across boundaries, so that more sustainable usage of natural resources can be developed and applied.
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Interrelating knowledge processes with institutional and cultural contexts in organic rice farming. Insights from integrated rice and duck farming in the Hongdong community of South KoreaDominik Rutz, Claudia Zingerli, 2009 Rural Development News (1):23-29.
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On- and Off-site Effectiveness of Soil and Water Conservation in Switzerland Steps towards the Integration of Scientific, Experts' and Farmers' Knowledge Flurina Schneider , Patricia Fry, Karl Herweg, Ledermann, Thomas Ledermann, Thomas, Hanspeter Liniger, V. Prasuhn, 2006 Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of Swiss Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon Research Station ART.
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The Quest for Sustainable Soil Cultivation in Swiss Agriculture – Co-creation of Knowledge through Network Building and Social Learning Flurina Schneider , 2009 PhD Thesis at University of Bern |
Incorporating Gender in Research on Indigenous Environmental Knowledge in the Tunari Nation
On producing and sharing knowledge across boundaries: experiences from the interfaces of an international development research networkClaudia Zingerli, Claudia Michel, Annika Salmi, 2010 In: Knowledge Management for Development Journal 5(2):185—196. DOI: 10.1080/18716340903201538
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